Had a pleasant afternoon birding Caumsett State Park. Had four kestrel hunting simultaneously in the field west of the main building complex. In the main parking lot a merlin buzzed a flock of starlings but wasn't serious since it had already made a fresh kill; the prey looked like a phoebe but I wasn't positive.
Much activity in the fields and woodlands flanking both sides of Fisherman's Road; several thrush species, several ruby-crowned kinglets, many flickers, phoebes and yellow-rumped warblers, a few palms and blackpolls, and a single parula. The highlight was a flock of about 4-0-45 pipits in the field that is located on the east side of the road about halfway to the beach..... John Turner -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
